Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-11-23
BADGER NEWS.

liquor dealers who have neglected to
take out licenses.
SUSAN TYLER, OF La Crosse, who lost
g. pension by marrying Frank Gotch,
who deserted her shortly after mar
rlage, has had the tie annulled by the
courts IN order that her name be re-
instated In the pension rolls.
The supervisors of Grant County
voted to relieve Thomas Mcmahon,
county treasurer, from paying Sc, 900,
funds belonging to the county that
were lost by reason of the failure OF
Hodges Bank at Platteville some
years ago.
Mons ANDERSON and other La
Crosse capitalists are about to build
q large sash, door and blind factory at
Grand Crossing.
M. E. EGAN has sued the city Of La
Crosse for $4,000 on account of inju-
rles received on one of the streets.
j. j. KAvANAUGH has been appoint
ed manager of the La Crosse Office of
the North American Telegraph Com
pany.
AT Ashland on the 18th, Leo Koer-
denat: a drug clerk recently from Mil
waukee, committed suicide by taking
morphine. He was found dead in his
bed, at the store of J. 0. Walker, on
Second Street. Upon large mirror
in the room he had written with q cake
OF soap, "Let me rest till am dead"
1t seems that he had attempted sui
eide the night before, but was relieved
by a physician and placed in charge
OF friends, who LIFT him alone for q
brief spell, early in the morning.
MRS. MARY JACKSON, of Crawford
County, raised, husked and sold 4, 400
barrels OF corn on her farm this sea-
son.
CHARLES SHAUG, a 12-year-old boy
living three miles west of Augusta, was
fatally injured by being thrown
against barbed wire fence by run
away team.
The state has issued in book form
the papers and discussions of the
farmers Institutes Of 1886. The
work WAS carefully edited by Supt.
Morrison and cannot fail to prove
valuable to the progressive agricul-
turists Of the state. It forms a vol
ume of 23Opages and is entitled "Wis-
consin Farmers Institute Bulletin
No. l."
Two enterprising residents of Craw-
ford County have tried threshing corn
from the shock with machine and
found that it turns it out clean and
chops the stalks up ready for fodder.
They can thresh about 800 bushels
per day.
THE Northern Wisconsin Congrega.
tional district now has fifteen churches,
twelve stations and twenty-five min
listers. The present superintendent of
this department, Rev. Geo. A. Hood,
has Travelled within the year in the
performance of his work total OF
Is, 375 miles.
E. N. FINNEY, for nine years manag-
ing director of the Wisconsin Central
road, has resigned.
EAU CLAIRE County is considering
plans for erecting an asylum for
chronic insane.
COHEN, FINN & Co., proprietors OF
two stores, dry goods and mems
clothing, at Ashland, have made O.
voluntary assignment to M. J. Holt,
who gave bonds for $4,000 which
is supposed to represent the amount
OF assets.
PATRICK COUGHLIN, of Madison,
reached his arm under g. trip hammer
that strikes q !, 2OO-pound blov, and
accidentally stepped on the lever that
works the trip. His arm was crushed.
DURING the fall season 1000 car
loads OF Montana stock passed
through LIS Crosse over the Burling
ton road.
The sum of $4,000 has been sub
scribed toward the support OF the
State Home for Veterans.
Don M. DICKINSON, who is named
as Col. Villas successor as postmaster
general, was at one time a resident of
Prairie du CHEN.
JUDGE CLEMENTsON, in the Crawford
County circuit court, dissolved the in
junction that for nearly two years
restrained the supervisors of that
county from buying land and erecting
buildings in pursuance of their reso-
luton to adopt the county system OF
caring for the poor.
THE Ashland ore docks are closed for
OA0 SCdSOA 6HO 10 mOI0 OIO Will 10
shipped until spring. The report Of
the Lake Shore q Central agents show
the grand total OF ore shipped to be
1,O4O, 73O tons, ap increase of 40, 73O
tons over last year. OF the total
amount shipped, 831, 421 tons were
from the Lake Shore and 2O9,3O8
from the Central docks, The ship
ments OF the ten largest shafts
were as follows: Colby, three
shafts, 1863 tons; Norrie proper
and East Norrie, 171,217; Aurora,
ITO, 300; Ashland, 1926; Iron
King, 47,OO1; Germania, 50. sos;
Kakagon, 43,O34; Puritan, 26,565;
Ironton, 24,762; Nimikon. 32,217.
1t took 769 vessels to transport the
ore, 624 from the Lake Shore and las
from the Contra. docks. The largest
cargo was taken by the steamer
Onoko. 500 tons. Thetastest load
ing was done at the Central docks,
where 1926 tons were put in in two
hours.
The deserted ranch of the notorious
Press Wade near Wash h1Ir0 burned